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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Aug 20

BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles

@lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.

One woman among those charged died in custody while detained at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, shortly after she attended a hearing on June 17 during which she pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, 10 of which carried enhancements under California’s Three Strikes Law for prior felony convictions. During that hearing, she was remanded to custody and had bail set at $1.33 million. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Daniel Vizcarra told LA Public Press that she was found hanging in a cell lockup, later that day. The coroner pronounced her dead just before 4 a.m. the next morning, on June 18, 2025.

screenshot of arrest record from 6/12/25

arrested at 725 by LAPD central division & taken to LAPD jail

arrest record from 6/13/25

arrested at 516 am by CHP & brought to LAPD 77th street

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ProbeLab @probelab.io · Jun 27

Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade went live on May 7th - how did the p2p network react to the event?

🔍 Our deep dive looks at changes in the peer-to-peer network topology, block arrival times, bandwidth throughput, and more!

Dive in 👉 www.probelab.network/blog/ethereu...

#Ethereum #Pectra #ETHDev

Behind the Scenes of Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade: A Data-Driven Analysis

The Pectra Upgrade in Numbers from the P2P Network

www.probelab.network

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🎃 Hell-en Shang 🎃 @helenshang.bsky.social · Jun 8

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 9

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Police continue to shoot directly at protesters. Multiple protesters are bleeding with wounds

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 29

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · May 6

Berlin right now

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 21

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Jorge Soares @jsoares.bsky.social · Mar 12

A pleasure to work with @yiannisbot.bsky.social, @dtrautwein.eu, and the @probelab.io team to enable analysis of unique blockchain and decentralised network data.

Baselight @baselightdb.bsky.social · Mar 12

You’ve never seen blockchain data like this before, literally!

For the first time ever, Baselight & @probelab.io are making onchain infrastructure insights public, so builders can monitor, analyze, and scale decentralized systems.

Query @ethereum.bsky.social , @filecoin.io, Polkadot and more!

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Mar 12

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 10

the feminine urge to

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

mashable.com

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Feb 22

Also, he’s a repeat offender and only apologized when CEA _made_ him.

www.marcgunther.com/blog/2019/04...

kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Feb 22

I added Jeff’s post above to show how he’s changed name publicly surreptitiously after his deplorable actions became public on the EA forums.

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Feb 22

platforming an SAer, really?

www.jefftk.com/p/jacy-reese...

Jacy Reese (born Jacy Anthis)?

Update 2020-05-08: Jacy wrote to me to tell me that his full name is

www.jefftk.com

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Matt Szabo @mjszabo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting

www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting

Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, made comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library, then approached the dais and was arrested.

www.latimes.com

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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · Feb 21

After receiving a death threat in the comments of a social media post by an official New Mexico Senate GOP account, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he probably won't file a police report and will still hear the bill that sparked the initial controversy.

Senator calls for ‘civility’ after death threat following New Mexico GOP post • Source New Mexico

Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces) on Thursday called for “civility” and asked Senate Republicans to condemn a death threat against him.

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Feb 17

Haben Deutsche im Ausland ihre Briefwahl bekommen? #wahl2025 #wahl

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Feb 2

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seals_i...

It's actually preferable to use them instead of a signature. The govt did phase out the use of these but it's still needed for some very important admin stuff (and the bank of course).

Seals in the Sinosphere - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Jan 30

I just discovered the practicality of seals in Japan. I use one for my bank so that the issue with signatures doesn't really come up.

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Jan 29

Geez, didn't know that the founder of LambdaConf was a Nazi. TIL

kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Nov 30

Golden hour blue sky.

Picture of a blue sky with a cloud during golden hour.

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Nov 22

Monitoring the health of p2p networks is crucial for a healthy ecosystem, yet it’s been largely ignored.

If you've missed the talk @ Devcon where @probelab.io unveils a powerful suite of open-source tools designed to track the journey of blocks and messages, check www.youtube.com/live/K5jLZJf...

YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

www.youtube.com

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Nov 6

disappointed but not surprised. sad day for democracy. insane how so many people's lives across the world will be affected by one john smith in pennsylvania.

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Nov 5

trauma 💀

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kasteph.eth @steph.bsky.social · Oct 28

do you know if there're benchmarks of @duckdb.org comparing previous versions of itself?

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